Adlestrop Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, England

The curvaceous mid-18th-century gardens laid out by Sanderson Miller were largely swept away by Humphry Repton in the late 18th and early 19th century, but a serpentine canal, irregular lake and wriggling paths survive. A belt of trees between the properties of Adlestrop House and Adlestrop Park undermines the link between the houses that Repton worked on by creating a stream garden between the two. The stream is now (2000) smothered but Repton's rock ledges in the stream (1779) survive and represent an early example of a rock garden.

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A country house, and a former rectory, with integrated pleasure grounds and a landscape park of about 1800 by Humphry Repton.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Adlestrop Park stands within its park on the north side of the A436, about 5 kilometres east of Stow-on-the-Wold. Unclassified roads loop off the A436 around the east and west sides of the park, serving the village of Adlestrop which lies north of Adlestrop Park. The area here registered is about 70 hectares [including Adlestrop House].

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire VI, (1965), pp 8-11

N Kingsley, The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Volume Two, 1660-1830 (1992), pp 46-9

Adlestrop Park: Restoration Plan, (Land Use Consultants 1993)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1883, published 1884 

Description written: May 1999

Edited: March 2003